Usually means: Young offspring of some animals.
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  1. whelps: Merriam-Webster
  2. whelps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whelps: Collins English Dictionary
  4. whelps: Vocabulary.com
  5. Whelps, whelps: Wordnik
  6. whelps: Wiktionary
  7. whelps: Dictionary.com
  8. Whelps: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. whelps: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Whelps: Legal dictionary

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  1. whelps: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whelps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whelps: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whelp as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (whelp)

noun:  A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
noun:  (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
noun:  (obsolete) A kind of ship.
noun:  One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
noun:  A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
verb:  (ambitransitive, of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth.
▸ Also see whelp


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